Water-wheel.



PATENT @FFEQE JCI-IN LORRAEN BEEL, 0F GALEA, ILLINOIS.

WATER-VHEEL.

Patented Dee. "t, i909.

Appteaton filed June 17, 1909. Serial No. 502,703.

5531 Specification of Letters Patent.

To oil ywho/m may confiera: the other end being journaled in the bearinglie it known that', l, doi-i3: LORRAIN BEIL, a plate 2 before mentioned,and seeured to the citizen ot the United States, and a resident shaft isa hub 16, having at each end an anot Galena, in the eonnty of loDaviess, State nular flange 17 which are connected at 5 oi illinois,have invented certain new and spaced intervals by pairs of vertical pinsor 60 useful improvements in VVater-YWheels, of rods 18, the members ofeach pair beingr ar- \\'hirh the 'following is a speeication. rangedradiall with respect to the shaft and My invention is an improvement inwater spaced a art trom each other.

wheels, and consists in certain novel con- A bla e or vane l5) isconnected with eaeli 1e .strut-,tions and combinations of partshereinpair of rods, each pair of rods forming a 65 after described andclaimed. guide for the respective vane, by means of 'the object of theinvention is to provide rollers 20, each blade being provided with awater wheel adapted to be partially iinfour pairs, two pairs en'ibraeingeach rod. mers-ed in a stream in a horizontal position, Asshown in Fig.5 the rollers are periph-- l5 aud wherein the rotor comprises aplurality erally grooved, and one member of each 70 ol. verticallymovable vanes, which by the pair is arranged on oneside of the rod, andn'iovement of the rotor are moved out of and the other member on-tbeother side. The into the water. arrangement of the rollers permits thevane Heter-ring to the dra\\.'ings forming a part to move up and down onthe rods, while at 20 bereut: Figure l is a plan view of the iur thesame time it is constrained to retain a 75 provement.; Fig. 2 is atransverse section; lvertieal position with its plane lierpendicui"ig.I' is a seetion on the line 3 of Fig. l; lar to the plate 1. As shown inFig. 3, the Fig. l is a side view oiIg a blade 1)artly in secvanes are.of lesser width than the length tion: and Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig.4. ofthe rods, so that tl1ey.1m1y move a dis- 25 'the embodiment ottheinvention shown in tance equal to their width, that is, they may 80 thedrawings eomprises a trame which is be displaced bodilyvertically.substantially a halt eylinder` and is adapted The vertical movement isbrought about to be placed horizontally' in a stream of by the eam platebefore mentioned. As the water with the tlat sidethereotc substantiallyblades emerge from the open side of thel 3o parallel with the directionot iiow of the trame and meet the torce of the current, in- 85 water,the rotor to be presently described dir'ated by the arrows in Fig. l,the rotor being supported in the easing and projecting eomprising thehub and vanes is rotated on through the open tlat side ot' the trame.the shaft, and as each blade engages the y'the trame is open, eomprisinga substanam plate it is gradually lifted out of the .'55 tiallyseniieireular plate l ot' wood or other water until it rests upontbt-i'horizonial por- 90 suitable material. and a bearing plate 2 artionof the plate. When again near thti" ranged above and ronrentrie with theplate, place ot emergence from the trame the blade and ronneetedtherenith by radial arms 3 begins to tall, and when it. emerges it. iswhirh radiate trom the bearing plate, aud again in lowered position. ltwill be underto are provided with tuigularportions t whieh stood ythattbe't'rame is intended to be half 95 are riveted to the plate l, as at5. submerged in the Water, the upper half be- A\t approximately thecenter of the flat ing above the surface, and that the power side ol theplate l an extension t) is provided, may be transmitted from the shaftby any and a curved (fain plate or .guide plate 7 suitable means.

3. is seven-ed to the extension by one end, as Jaen blade is provided onits lower edge l00- at tu, `l'rom n'henee it rurves around eoneenlwithspaced bearings Q1. and with recesses trie'with the center ot the frame,gradually 22 between the bearings, and a roller 23 is rising. :is at t?,then extending subfiantially journaled in each recess, the rollershaving horizontal `for fome distanee, as at t0, and trnnnions 24journaled in the bearings. A'

.,o tht-,n jaduallydeseending,asat11,11ntilit guide or track 25 isarranged eoncentrie l05 inet-t the plate to wbir'h the other end issewith the shaft near the periphery of the aureo, as at 4trame forengagement by the outer roller,

'theliame is 'n'ovided at the eenter of its and the inner roller engagesthe cam plate. lower t'aee with a .step l'iearing lf in which Tt will beunderstood that the guide 2:1 fol- 5 isV journatmlotlxe lower end ot ashaft: 14, lows the earnl plate and assists it to move 'H0'l the bladesin the manner described, both tofA l. A water wheel comprising a'substan tially semicylindrical frame adapted to be partially immersed ina horizontal position in a stream, and `with the flat side thereofsubstantially parallel with the direction uof flow of the current, avertical shaft jonrnaled at the center of the frame, a hub on the shaftwithin the' frame and provided at cach end with a marginal annularflange, radially arranged pairs of rods connecting the flanges at spacedintervals, a blade or vaney rfor each Iair of rods and provided withupper and ower'pairsof grooved rollers for engaging the rods ol thepair, rollers on the lower edges of the blades, and earn plates on whichthe rollers run, each plate compris ing an elevated horizontal portionoffset from the bottoni of the frame and connected thereto by inclinedportions, for the purpose shaft, a blade for each pair, each of saidblades having an upper or lower pair of grooved rollers for engaging therods of the pair, rollers onthe lower edges of the blades, and camplates for engagement by the rollers to raise and lower the blades. i

A water Wheel comprising a. frame, a shaft journaled therein, a rotor onthe shaft, said rotor col'nprising a hub, pairs or rods supported by thehub in spaced relation, the

members of each pair being in alinenient and radial to the hub, a bladesupportedby cach pair, each of said blades having a plurality of pairsof grooved rollers tor each rod and engaging the rod between thememeeaje i 1 bers of the pairs, and a. cam late for raising and loweringthe blades or the purpose specified.

4. A water Wheel comprising a frame, a shaft journaled therein,a rotoron the shaft, said rotor comprising a hub, pairs of rods supported bythe hub in spaced relation, the members of each pair being 'Y inalinement and radial to the hub, a blade supported by each pair, each ofsaid blades havinga plurality of pairs or" grooved rollers tor each rodand enga-ging the .'od between the members of the pairs, and means forraising and lowering the blades, for the purpose specified.

5. water wheel comprising a frame, a

shaft journaled therein, arotor on the shattw,

said rotor comprising a hub, pairs of rods" supported by the hub inspaced relation, the members of each pair being in alinement and radialto the hub, a blade for each air, means for connecting the blade to thero s to permit said blade to` move longitudinally thereof, whileretaining it perpendicular and -radial to the hub, and means for liftingthe blades, for the purpose specified.

6. In a water wheel, a rotor, comprising a hub provided with spacedannular flanges, pairs of rods connecting the flanges at spacedintervals, the members of each pair oi? rods being arranged in alinementradial to the hub, a blade for each pair, l each of said blades havingupper and lower pairs of grooved rollers for engaging the rods of thepairs, and means for lifting the blades in succession and permittingthem to drop, for the purpose specified. r

7. In a waterwheel, a rotor, comprising a hub having spaced annularflanges, blades between the flanges and radial to thehub and in spacedrelation, means for connecting the blades to the hub to permit them tomove longitudinally 'thercoi while retaining them vertical and parallelto the longitudinal anisy of the hub, and means for lifting the blades,for the purpose set forth.

JOHN LORRAIN BEIL. Witnesses FRANK H. KNonnnn-n, FRANK R. Bain.

